Response from Berthold Horn, Re: Configuring Y & Y for Windows XP

[Murray Eisenberg]

You're right about the font at issue.  Here's an old message when I
first encountered the problem, with Windows 2000.  (I'm not sure the
problem persisted with Windows XP.)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: problem with lstbo
Date: 	Thu, 07 Jun 2001 09:03:34 -0400
From: 	Y&Y Support <support at YandY.com>
To: 	murray at math.umass.edu

It's a bug in Windows 2000 Pro.
The Windows GUI spec says FontNames can be up to 32 characters long.
Windows 2000 Pro allows only 31 (presumably for null termination).
LucidaSans-TypewriterBoldOblique
was fine in all previous versions of Windows and on the Mac,
but is rejected by Windows 2000 Pro font installation.


Mike Prager wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 1/28/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Does the warning against ATM 4.0 with Windows XP also apply to ATM
>> Deluxe 4.1 with Windows XP?
>
>
> No, I think it's safe to say that ATM 4.1 Deluxe works fine.  A minor
> bug-fix (ATMFIX.EXE) is available from the Adobe Web site and is
> recommended.
>
>> I have the latter and installed and run Y&Y TeX without difficulty but
>> for one small problem.  There was ONE font -- at this point it would
>> take me some digging to discover which one -- that had to be modified
>> so as to have a different (internal) name.  AS I recall, that was
>> because the ATM database didn't allow quite long enough names and
>> hence confounded two different fonts.
>
>
> I think the incompatibility is with Windows itself.  The font that
> causes the problem in my installation is Lucida Sans Typewriter, bold
> italic.  In my opinion, the name change should go on the list of items
> to be fixed by Y&Y as soon as possible.  It should be easy and cheap to
> fix.
>
> ...Mike
>
>
>

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Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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